Technical Roadmap

Naming a Variable in Python

Before creating a variable let's learn some rules to name a variable.

What is an Identifier?

Identifier is a specific name used to identify a variable, function, class, module, or other object. We use this name to access the data we stored in memory

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An identifier is like an Aadhaar ID: just as two people cannot have the same ID, two variables in the same code cannot share the same name.

Rules for Naming a Variable

A variable name contains only letters (a-z, A-Z), digits (0-9), and underscores (_).
An identifier cannot begin with a number.
A variable name is case-sensitive. Age, age, and AGE are all different variables.
A variable name cannot use the reserved keywords. You cannot name a variable print, for, if etc.
A variable cannot use symbols like @, $, %, !, or spaces anywhere in it

PYTHON

name="Logicoria"
article_name="Naming a variable"
print(name)
print(article_name)

Output

Logicoria
Naming a Variable

Multi-word variable names

For multi-word variable names, you can use these naming conventions to make your code more readable.

Snake Case: Use lowercase with underscores for variables.
• Example: user_name
Pascal Case: Start every word with a capital letter for Classes.
• Example: UserProfile
Constants: Use ALL CAPS for values that never change.
• Example: PI = 3.14

NOTE: Remember variable names are case-sensitive. Num and num are separate variable.

Naming Comparisons

Good Practice	Bad Practice
`user_age = 20` (Descriptive)	`a = 20` (Vague)
`is_logged_in = True` (Clear intent)	`var = True` (Meaningless)
`total_price = 50.5` (Snake Case)	`Totalprice = 50.5` (Messy casing)